THE Slovakian birth parents of the children embroiled in the Ukip ­fostering row have branded social workers “racist” and accused them of “destroying” their family.

The three youngsters were abruptly removed from their foster home after social workers in ­Rotherham were told that the ­couple caring for them were members of anti-EU party Ukip.

Staff at the Labour-run authority said that despite the children being happy and well-looked they had concerns that the foster parents’ political beliefs made them incapable of fulfilling the youngsters’ ­“cultural and ethnic needs”.

An investigation has been launched after the decision was slammed by MPs from all political parties.

Yesterday the children’s Slovak father said: “It is the social services who have been racist against my family.”

He claimed his children had been taken from him and wife because they are Roma and social workers disapprove of their non-British ­lifestyle. He said 20 police officers raided their home to seize the last of their four children following the removal of the previous three.

It is the social services who have been racist against my family

The children’s Slovak father

All are being looked after by the state at a cost of £300,000 a year.

Officials at Rotherham council said they could not comment on individual cases.

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